Book of Isaiah, Chapter 59
Chapter 59 of Isaiah
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
between you and your God,
and your sins have hid his face from you
so that he does not hear.
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue mutters wickedness.
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
they weave the spider’s web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one which is crushed a viper is hatched.
men will not cover themselves with what they make.
Their works are works of iniquity,
and deeds of violence are in their hands.
and they make haste to shed innocent blood;
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
desolation and destruction are in their highways.
and there is no justice in their paths;
they have made their roads crooked,
no one who goes in them knows peace.
and righteousness does not overtake us;
we look for light, and behold, darkness,
and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
we grope like those who have no eyes;
we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
we moan and moan like doves;
we look for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
and our sins testify against us;
for our transgressions are with us,
and we know our iniquities:
and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
and righteousness stands afar off;
for truth has fallen in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
¶ The LORD saw it, and it displeased him
that there was no justice.
and wondered that there was no one to intervene;
then his own arm brought him victory,
and his righteousness upheld him.
and a helmet of salvation upon his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing,
and wrapped himself in fury as a mantle.
wrath to his adversaries, requital to his enemies;
to the coastlands he will render requital.
and his glory from the rising of the sun;
for he will come like a rushing stream,
which the wind of the LORD drives.
to those in Jacob who turn from transgression, says the LORD.Read Isaiah Chapter 59 in other Bible versions:
